We Are The Misfits Research Paper

“We are the misfits” was one of the last messages told by the pastor of the Evangelical Waterspring’s Chruch at 10:45 AM at 4250 25th East. After a long sermon of scripture, that was the leaving message before one final hymn performed by a very professional band. “We are the misfits” and their definition of a church as “people who shouldn’t be together but come together for the common goal of Jesus’s love.” I’d never particularly expected a saying like that to come out of a church or minister. In my experience, church and religious peoples were the norm, the majority, and sitting there surrounding by people swaying and singing and saying “amen” between pauses, I felt like I was the outsider. The misfit who had come to invade a place “filled with the tangible light of Jesus” to observe but not participate. It felt wrong to me, to be there. Not because of the lack of warmth or friendliness of the believers but because of my lack of …show more content…
Even before they’d paused in the music to greet each other and shake hands with the people around them. For some reason, I hadn’t expected that; hadn’t felt that kind of community love from my Catholic roots or the few times I’d gone to visit a Mormon sect. It built upon my discomfort, built upon the idea that I was an invader to their devotion. The music was beautiful and religious, people singing openly to “I couldn’t earn it, I don’t deserve it, yet still you give yourself away” and “Lord you’re the only thing that matters everything else can fade away”. I expected it, that kind of talk, expected most of the sermon to be about a translation and description of the Bible. What I did not expect was the humor, the laughter, the ease in which they personified Jesus as they talked of his trials and